The prelims featured Raphael Assuncao-Aljamain Sterling and Nate Marquardt-Sam Alvey.

Payout Perspective:

The DVR numbers bring up the event slightly but the peak is down from last month’s UFC on Fox 22 which was 4.8 million viewers. Notably, all 4 fights on the Fox broadcast ended early via TKO stoppage or submission.

Ive heard a lot of criticism for the numbers on the mma websites and such but I am of the mind that anything over 2m viewers on a prime time network combat sport card is good business. I think the criticism is out of place. Good ratings for a show that had entertaining fights and they need to do more to promote Shevchenko who is a total star on a variety of levels

Diego on
February 1st, 2017 6:02 AM

I agree. If you’re hitting those kinds of numbers regularly, you should be able to make money.